do you realise that?

Question

having to have strong faith is not easy?why can the faith lost sometimes?

how can we maintain the faith?

Answer 1

The violator is correct. Faith is maintained under the right conditions. Reading the word of God, reading other scripturally sound books, prayer, noting the times God works in your life, and so on.

Faith can become weak or lost if nothing is done with it or to maintain it. Even challenges to faith can help build it, if you respond appropriately to the challenge, by being always ready to give an answer to those who want to know why you believe as you do.

I hope you enjoy many hours doing those things that will help build your faith, and keep it strong enough to last a lifetime.

Feel free to email me if you have any questions.

Hope I helped. God bless you.

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AM Enforcer: I have a hard time believing in Santa because I buy the gifts. And not one has shown up yet that I did not know the person who purchased it. Faith of the spiritual variety is a completely different thing.

Jon M: Faith can mature without the believer questioning it. The day to day challenges and tests to faith are more than enough to cause a person to continually reassess their faith, if only to ascertain if it is strong enough to withstand the current assault.

Thus, it is not a question of being afraid to let faith grow, but how well your faith grows with each successive test. Because a solid, unshakable faith is the type of faith God desires in his children, that is the greatest compliment to God.

You are right in stating that a person who believes "that God's word can stand up to anything", has a faith that can handle whatever is thrown at it.

However, because living life, let alone the life of a person of faith is fraught with challenge after challenge, making it through each and every day (and all that comes with it) is all the exercise towards growth, strength, and maturity a believer needs.

Great argument. Compelling logic.

Answer 2

When it comes to having strong faith in myself, then looking back over my life, sometimes it was hard to have that faith and othertimes it was easy. I know most people look at this question as having faith in something outside themselves, and I know this is due to the normal way of looking at our world. At first I did that too, but then later realized that 'outside myself' really meant, behind my conditioning.

I found out that when I had strong faith in myself in the past, then usually this was because 'I was fooling myself'. I recognized this when life would throw me a ringer and give me a glimpse of my foolishness. It was then when 'my faith' was shaken, that I was ready to surrender and realize "I" didn't have all the answers. Then I see that I had put my faith in something else that didn't have to do with my self-image or personality. So I see this was a loss of faith in the 'old me', yet my faith wasn't lost but rather it was redirected. Then I was open for another kind of answer, I had put my faith into trusting I would receive guidance or wisdom from another aspect of being.

And so I see that my journey of discovering myself, of diving into and finding out who I am has been like a roller coaster ride, going up and down with where I direct my faith: in myself and away from myself.

As I go along, the faith in myself grows stronger each day, but it's not really a faith anymore, it's more like I feel grounded in my body on earth. I see that the step I currently face is one of growing in independence and self-sovereignty. Yet, what goes along with this, is increasingly less support from the outside for my self-expression and ideas. I get much less confirmation from people these days and fewer and fewer people understand what I'm expressing. So some days I feel challenged, because it's hard to go through this step, all by oneself, but also I see that's what has to be done. So I accept this, yet I see it's still the same thing today: the roller coaster ride continues.

Betsy

Answer 3

Faith held by intellect is easily overwhelmed by events of life.

The more one is able to move "within" oneself, that is, embrace ones Spirituality via ones Apapsyche [Operational Energy of ones Soul], the more lasting and real becomes ones faith.

To experience ones Spirituality via ones intuition [which is the way we touch the subtle Spirituality within ourselves] one must lose ones dependence upon "thinking". This is initially a scary thing to do... somewhat like letting go of the delusional idea that one can "control life" by ones thinking. Surrender is the key... and to do that requires trust, or faith in God. Which comes first? A sense of the pain of separation of ones Soul from God I suspect must precede ones leap into the "Unknown" of actual faith.

Peace

Answer 4

True faith is easy, it is your natural state of being. Its really too bad most religions twist it into a struggle.

Answer 5

Blind 'faith' is not the Faith revealed and built by applying oneself to the things of the Spirit.

Persevere and one day you will find that unshakeable FAITH that Jesus established as a Rock, against which all the confusion and hatred of 'hell' can not prevail.

Answer 6

There's a very good reason that it's not easy to have strong faith. Like most of us have a hard time believing in Santa....because it's ridiculous.

Answer 7

You're right.

But a faith that is afraid to question itself is the weakest faith of all, because it never is allowed to mature.

I think many believers lose faith because they are afraid to let it grow. Isn't examining your belief system and comparing it to others the greatest compliment to God? It is saying that you believe enough to allow your faith to be challenge, believing that God's word can stand up to anything.

Answer 8

In the Bible a man said, "Lord I believe, but help my unbelief."

Sometimes we need to ask God to strengthen our faith. Jeremiah 33:3 God says "call on Me and I will answer thee and show thee great and mighty things."

Answer 9

The reason people lose faith is because of Rom. 10:17. You
must hear the Word of God daily, just like you take in food
daily. You'll starve without it.

Answer 10

Faith is trying to convince yourself that something is true, that you know isn't.

- paraphrasing Mark Twain